Johnson Brothers Selected for Senior & Junior European Championships

Brothers from Stevenston Martin & Jamie Johnson continue to compete and win nationally, and in result both have been selected to represent Scotland in two major European Championships.

Martin, was selected to represent Scotland last week at his first European individual championships which was held in Linz, Austria. As part as a 4 player Scotland team, Martin was selected to play in Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles with partner Danny Bajwa, and Mixed Doubles with partner Alisa Khalid.

Jamie, the younger of the two was selected to compete in the European Youth Championships over the summer in Malmo, Sweden. Jamie was part of the U19 Boys team, alongside Kieran Walker, Gavin Yuan & Harry Blackhall.

Martin is currently ranked no3 in Scotland and Jamie who was ranked no1 junior last year, moves up to the senior game this season where he is ranked just outside the top 10.

Both of the players continue to train hard week in week out and represent North Ayrshire TTC in the Scottish and British League.

Positive Start at SNL

A team – M Johnson, V Gorman, S Chen, C Main, J Johnson
B team – N Hogg, D Hay, H Blackhall, R Henry
C team – I Macpherson, C Duncan, A Attia
D team – P Walker, A Hughes, P Unnam, T Martin

North Ayrshire A team for the first two matches were Viktor Gorman, Sung Meng Chen, & Jamie Johnson. Injuries for Martin Johnson and Chris Main made way for Viktor and Sung who filled in brilliantly as expected. A 5-1 win v Dumfries in the morning match with Danny Bajwa defeating Sung 3-2 was the only match we lost. Convincing 6-0 win v Glasgow South A where our 3 players played well.

North Ayrshire B team was Nathan Hogg, David Hay and Ryan Henry who finished in 4th place last season. The team started well a 5-1 win over a weaker than normal Drumchapel A, and a 3-3 draw v Dumfries A in a hard fought match which could’ve went either way.

North Ayrshire C team of Ian Macpherson, Chad Duncan and Paul Walker won two matches from two to start their promotion campaign off to a good start. Paul was playing up in place for an injured Adam Attia but held his own winning 3 out of 4 matches. Ian won 3/4 singles matches and Chad won 4/4.

North Ayrshire D team of Alec Hughes, Padma Unnam and Tama Martin lost their matches to two strong teams but the matches much closer than it looks on paper. The team play Edinburgh Uni C, Dumfries C & Inverness in the next day of matches. Great opportunity for juniors Padma and Tama to compete in the SNL against experienced senior players which will give them plenty of chances for some big wins.

Tables, Fixtures and Results available to view on SNL website – Scottish National League

Alec Hughes Selected for V6N

Congratulations to our club chairman Alexander Hughes on his selection to compete for Scotland in the Veterans Home Nations. Alex alongside the Scottish team will be heading to Guernsey for the prestigious event.

Alec has been training hard for this event and will be playing from Friday 13th – Sunday 15th at Guernsey TT Centre in the Mens Over 75’s event alongside team mate Ian McLagan. Good luck Alex and team Scotland.

WoS Division 1 League & Cup Winners

Congratulations is in order for our Division 1 West of Scotland Senior League team of Ian, Martin, Chris, Jamie & Nathan who won the double this year, winning the WoS Division 1 title last month and the Divisional Cup last week

The players would like to thank team captain Ian Macpherson for organising the team week in week out and playing & winning when he managed to get a game … Ian has played and captained the North Ayrshire WoS Division 1 team for over 10 years and is delighted to win the league and cup double

Full results of the season – West of Scotland Table Tennis League

British Premier Cup Comes to North Ayrshire

3rd place finish for North Ayrshire at the SBL Premier Cup 🥉

We were honored to be selected to host the annual Senior British Premier League Cup this season, and send our thanks to Table Tennis England & British League for selecting us to host.

Well done to all the players, coaches, officials, umpires and spectators who helped making the event a good one 🤜🏻🤛🏼

Andre Sonnet visits Borussia Dusseldorf

Club coach, player and volunteer Andre Sonnet visited the top table tennis center in Europe, Borussia Düsseldorf for a full weeks coaching course. The course which ran Monday to Friday and lasted 6 hours a day touched on all aspects of coaching where Andre is picking up plenty of new training and coaching ideas to bring back to some of our club sessions.

Andre currently coaches at Argyll Centre session every Thursday 11am-1pm and helps out at our Junior session which runs every Monday 6-7.15pm.

Pictured below from left to right – Andre at Borrussia Dusseldorf TT Centre. Andre coaching u15 girls Scottish team in January at the Scotland v Ireland friendly match.

Scottish National League Champions

C H A M P 1 0 N S – Celebrating 10 SNL Division 1 titles

Congratulations to the North Ayrshire team of Hugo Torngren, Martin Johnson, Jamie Johnson & Chris Main on beating Stirling and Murrayfield today to clinch their 10 Scottish National League title.

North Ayrshire team finished the SNL season with 7 wins from 7 on 14 points, 2 points ahead of second place team JK Carnbo and 4 points ahead of third place Murrayfield A.

North Ayrshire B team of Nathan Hogg, Ryan Henry and David Hay finished on 8 points in fourth place.

West Kilbride TT – Aria Fund

Aria – Ayrshire Rural & Island Fund

West Kilbride TT Club continue to grow as our classes increase from 1 a week to 3 a week and we welcome funding from Aria Fund to purchase a range of new equipment including 8 brand new tables.

Funding from the Ayrshire Rural & Island Fund allowed us to purchase brand new tables, barriers, nets, balls and bats which look great and give our players and members new and the best equipment to play on. The new equipment will mean West Kilbride TT Club have great equipment now and for the future where we are increasing participation, growing the membership and the number of classes.

See below of our classes and information on our club

• West Kilbride TT Club on every Friday 7-9pm – Open to all
• Bat and Chat Adult Only session every Thursday 1-3pm
• Wednesday Night Drop In 7-9pm
• West Kilbride Team in West of Scotland Junior League this season for first time
• West Kilbride team will be entered into the newly formed Ayrshire TT League
• New qualified coaches in club, passing their L1 course, First Aid & Child Protection
• People of all ages and abilities playing
• Leaving a legacy for West Kilbride with equipment the public can use for many years to come

Our club committee would like to thank the Aria Fund for their support.

North Ayrshire Open 2024 Results

Results from both days of our flagship annual event, North Ayrshire Open 2024. Pictures, videos and interviews are available on our Facebook page – Facebook

Mens Singles
Colin Dalgleish
Martin Johnson
SF – Danny Bajwa, Chris Main

Women’s Singles
Emily Flynn
Grace Looney
SF – Joy Daniels, Shannon Brown

Open Doubles
Dalgleish / Yuan
Johnson / Bajwa

Band 1
Keiran Walker
Joe Sheard

Band 2
Jackson Macfarlane
Junior Close

Band 3
Euan Hanna
Conor Smith

Band 4
Lilly Smith
Callum Quinn

Over 55s
Derek Lundie
Brian Irvine

U19 Boys
Gavin Yuan
Joe Mulhern

U19 Girls
Grace Looney
Amelia Smolarek

Open Junior Doubles
Tibbetts / Blackhall
Walker / Schogger

U15 Boys
Joe Mulhern
Rory Thomson

U15 Girls
Nichole Lee
Eimear Hutchinson

U13 Boys
Bohao Chen
Karsten Close

U13 Girls
Alexandra Hart
Eimear Hutchinson

Banded Doubles
Pentleton / Fediai
Murray / Murray

Banded Singles
Issac Ishmael
Joe Murray